2026 Reading Challenge
Genres

Adoptee


Adoptee Books

All You Can Ever Know
When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology – An Emotion-Filled Collection for Teens Exploring Growing Up Adopted
First Love Language
The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
My Name Is Why
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption
Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee's Return to Korea
A Gesture Life
This Book Might Be About Zinnia
Little Fires Everywhere
For Black Girls Like Me
I Wish for You a Beautiful Life: Letters from the Korean Birth Mothers of Ae Ran Won to Their
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Uprooted by Peter J. BoniThe Stranger in My Genes by Bill GriffethNPE* A story guide for unexpected DNA discoveries by Leeanne R. HayInheritance by Dani ShapiroThe Milkman's Son by Randy Lindsay
NPE, Adoptee & DNA Discoveries
12 books — 4 voters
The Primal Wound by Nancy VerrierAll You Can Ever Know by Nicole ChungYou Don't Look Adopted by Anne HeffronThe Racism of People Who Love You by Samira MehtaAdoption Fantasies by Kimberly D. McKee
Adoptee Books
16 books — 1 voter

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThirty-Eight Days of Rain by Eva AsprakisThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'FarrellThe Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
Step and Adoptive Families in Fiction
26 books — 7 voters
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg SloanBeyond the Bright Sea by Lauren WolkAnne of Green Gables by Kathleen OlmsteadPictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly GiffThe Year the Maps Changed by Danielle Binks
children's books about adoption, ages 10-14
25 books — 3 voters

Adoption Is a Lifelong Journey by Kelly DiBenedettoWhen We Become Ours by Shannon GibneyVoices Unheard by Lisa Coppola LMHCDelly Duck by Holly MarlowThe Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier
Essential Adoption Reading
49 books — 32 voters
Adoption Is a Lifelong Journey by Kelly DiBenedettoWhen We Become Ours by Shannon GibneyAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker BradleyThe War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
children's books about adoption, age +8
29 books — 15 voters

Quotes Tagged “Adoptee”

DaShanne Stokes
“ What matters most is not 'what' you are, but 'who' you are. ...more ”
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DaShanne Stokes
“ If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights? ”
― DaShanne Stokes
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Videos Tagged “Adoptee”

An-Ya and Her Diary: Book Trailer
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